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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time.
If you'd like to take your experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank of Charles Stein, a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Oh, delicious. Probably the best one I've ever had. Well, if you're thinking about what to buy for your Christmas loved ones, look at that stuff behind me over my shoulder. The Dilbert 2025 calendar.
Chapter 2: How can caffeine impact health?
You can only find it at Dilbert.com and the link to the sales page. And four books, one of which will be just perfect for somebody in your life. So remember that. Well, there's an article in the Spectator Index. There's a new scientific study that says caffeine might have a protective effect on Parkinson's disease. Did a very large study. That's right. Coffee can do anything.
So if any of you were coming down with Parkinson's, I think the simultaneous sip has protected you for at least one more day. So no Parkinson's for you. There's a study, according to SciPost, that finds that people who are in relationships tend to be happier than single people. Huh. People in relationships are happier than single people.
You know how they could have saved a little money on that study. Maybe ask me why just about every human being who has ever been born tries to get into a relationship, could it be because it makes them happier? Possibly. Possibly. Did you know, according to No Ridge, I guess that's the publication, that if you got extra 46 minutes of sleep, it can boost your gratitude, resilience, and well-being?
For those of you who didn't know that extra sleep is good for you, Yeah, no, it turns out, sleep. Healthy food, sleep, exercise. I know, I know. Every day we're surprised to find out those things are good for you. Just should have asked Scott. But here's one that's surprising, according to Aarhus University. I like this university name, A-A-R-H-U-S. Aarhus. Where do you go to school?
Aarhus University. I like it. Anyway, they did a study and found out you can satisfy your appetite just by looking at pictures of food on your phone. Well, that's going to save me a lot of time, because I've been wasting my time eating and pooping, and I can just scroll. No, I'm just kidding. You still need to eat, no matter what. But here's the interesting part.
You have to see the same picture 30 times, and then you get bored with it, and then you don't want to eat it. So if you're hungry and you see a picture of your favorite food once, it's going to make you hungrier. You'll be, oh, I'm so hungry. I want those french fries or whatever. But if you look at it 30 different times, not only will you be bored, but you'll be less hungry.
Now, what does that remind you of? Let me tell you. Remember I taught you in my book, Reframe Your Brain, which is over this shoulder, right there. Reframe Your Brain. One of the stories in there is that If you don't already know this, along with my audience here on my live stream, we cured the common cold. I'm sorry, the common sneeze, not the cold. I haven't cured a cold yet. Yet.
But it won't work on every sneeze. What doesn't work on the sneeze is the cat, you know, sort of sneak up on you. But if no one's coming and you're petting a cat and you don't want to scare the cat, you can actually imagine the sneeze and it cancels the sneeze. Now, you don't believe that works, do you? If you haven't tried it, you don't believe it works.
But a lot of people have tried it, including me, a bunch of times. It works. It won't work on every sneeze, like not the fast ones that just like hit you. But if you know it's coming for like 30 seconds, just imagine yourself sneezing and it goes away. It's the damnedest thing. So I do believe this study about looking at food 30 times, I do think that could work.
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Chapter 3: What recent events occurred in Iran regarding nuclear sites?
And people are wearing their hats in public? Click. And then you turn off MSNBC. Why? Are you turning it off because their news was not accurate? No. You're turning it off because your source of dopamine went away. There's no dopamine. That's it. It was just like an addiction to feel good.
So as soon as it became plainly obvious to everyone that the viewers of MSNBC were the dumbest people in the entire country, and I say that Unfortunately, it's just true. Because they believe that the news on MSNBC was real. Those are the dumbest people in America, if you believe that the news is real. Sorry.
If you think the news about politics, anyway, and geopolitical stuff, if you think that stuff's real, you're the dumbest people in America. If you think that science should be trusted because it's science... You're among the dumbest people in America. You don't understand that anything works.
And the realization that you're among the dumbest from going from the smartest all the way to the dumbest, that's devastating. So here's what's going to happen. Do you recall that there was the same drop when Trump won the first time? I think there was a big drop the first time. Most of that will come back. Do you know why it will come back?
Well, at the moment, Trump isn't doing anything except awesome things that they have a little bit to talk about. But mostly he hasn't done stuff because he's not in the job yet for the second term. So as soon as he's doing stuff, then they're going to have stuff to complain about and they'll be able to complain their old way.
Oh, dear viewers, let me tell you how smart you are, because you never would have made this mistake that Trump and all of those mega fools are making. Look how smart we are. You know, we were right. Kamala Harris never would have made this problem, would she? I guess all those voters were dumb after all.
So if there was any temporary moment when you thought you were the dumb ones, well, let me talk you out of this. We're the smart ones. You're the smart ones. And let's stay away from those other, those terrible MAGA people. And if they show up for your holidays, well, don't even let them in. Don't let them in at all.
so yes i think their viewership will come back when they can write their ship and start doing more dopamine direct you know fake news but the other point i wanted to point out is something that i didn't know for a long time but i didn't know how cable news the so-called legacy news makes their money i thought hey they advertise so they're making their money from advertisements
And the reason that people advertise is so that you will buy their products. Turns out none of that's true, which is quite a mindfuck that the advertisers are not trying to get you to buy their products. That's not even why they do it. And the advertising is not the most critical part of the revenue. Number one, the cable news people get revenue from the cable provider.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Elon Musk's talks with Iran?
But if you understand that, you're more likely to just make your own opinion about whether you want Trump's economic policies and let the rest go. So, yeah, I think that's what it is. I think it's people who believe the news versus people who know it's mostly hoaxes. There's a study by, this was on Axios too, a study from Columbia Business School.
They did this after the 2016 election, and they did find that two out of three People who didn't want to tell you their opinion about politics, 203 voted for Trump. So it is true, it's confirmed by studies, that in 2016, when I was telling you every single day, there are secret Trump supporters that are lying to pollsters, it was 100% correct. Now, a lot of you saw it, too.
It wasn't like I was the only one who had that idea. But I said that that was also going to be true in this election. I said that this election, too, the people who act like they're undecided or don't want to tell you what they think, there are going to be Trump supporters. And sure enough, I just asked perplexity, the search engine, if this 2024 election had secret Trump supporters.
And according to perplexity, the answer is yes. And the reason the answer is yes, it says, is because if you look at the, let's say, the average of the polling, on average, it underpolled Trump. And if all the polling companies all underpolled them, I think most of them did, maybe 80% or so underpolled them, then that's a pretty good indication that the Trump supporters are hiding.
Not that every single one of them did a bad poll. So here we are again. Now, here's the fun part. Do you know how I always tell you about my, quote, smart Republican or smart Democrat friend? So I have a longtime friend who's very Democrat. And things have not been good through the Trump era with he and I because he believes the news is real. And I say that not as a joke.
He reads the New York Times and he watches CNN and he believes that he learned news and it's real. Yeah. Now, obviously, I can't have a conversation with him about anything because he thinks those things are real. But on top of that, he's also an expert in polling. Like he gives public speeches on polling techniques and what to expect and how to interpret them and stuff. An expert on polling.
So prior to this election, I asked him if he thought the polls were going to be right and He said, you know, I told him I thought the polls were under-sampling Trump again. He said, oh, that may have happened the first time. Indeed, indeed, he was under-polled the first time. But pollsters have now figured out a number of ways to correct for that. And I thought to myself, really?
How do you correct for the data you don't have? What exactly is the method for correcting for the data you don't have. Now, I used to work in the data analysis field before I was a cartoonist. Mostly I was looking at budgets and data and projections and financial forecasts and stuff like that. I know what it means when you don't have the data and you adjust. It means you're guessing.
It just means you're guessing. You can't adjust for data you don't have. That's not a thing. You can't apply an algorithm for the data you don't have. So once again, and by the way, he was really confident that this time the polling was going to be accurate.
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Chapter 5: Why has legacy media viewership dropped?
So let's say 80 hours a week, no money, super high IQ. Okay, that's going to be tough to find. Unless they're already very rich, which they might be if they have a super high IQ. But good luck with that. You know, if anyone else asks that, you would just laugh it off. But if Elon Musk and Vivek say, we want you to work eight hours a week, it's going to be terrible.
You have to be brilliant and we're not going to pay you. It's actually attractive. If I were younger and smarter and lived closer to New York, Washington, D.C., I guess, I'd be thinking about it. And the reason I'd be thinking about it is that I could be working with a whole bunch of geniuses who are doing the most important thing that maybe the country has done in years.
So that's appealing to me. Just being part of something that would have that much impact and importance and require smart people. You know, you're not going to do it with dollars. You're going to need extra smart, because the level of complexity that's going to be involved is going to be through the roof. The complexity is just going to be crazy. But I won't be joining that group.
I'm not quite the demographic. But I love this sentence, probably from Yilang, quote, We don't need more part-time idea generators. We need super high IQ, small government revolutionaries willing to work 80 hours per week on unglorious cost cutting. I like it. We don't need more part-time idea generators.
Do you know how many people decided that they had a good idea for cutting the government and sent it to Elon? Must be like a million of them. Anyway. Saturday Night Live had Alec Baldwin on. As you know, he had his legal difficulties with the tragic death of a staff member that got shot accidentally when he pulled the trigger on his gun that should not have had a bullet in it.
But he's getting some pushback. because he did an rfk jr impression so he played rfk jr and he did a voice imitation in the raspy voice now here's my question if you're going to do an impression of somebody who has a non-standard voice don't you have to do it in the way that they actually talk is that really an insult
I mean, when people would do Stephen Hawkins, they would talk like Stephen Hawkins. I don't know what is happening. I am talking through a machine. And I never thought that that was disrespectful to Stephen Hawkins because that's actually the way he talked. Likewise, and I'm speaking as someone who had this exact problem, if somebody had done a
skit about me when i talked the same way before my spasmodic dysphonia got cured with surgery i spoke the same way that rfk junior does worse actually um if somebody had done an impression of me during that time i think it would have bothered me but it would only bother me that it was reminding me that i had a voice problem i wouldn't feel like it was disrespectful
In fact, I think it was weird if they didn't copy my voice. That would be weirder. So if there's one thing we know about RFK Jr., he has a very, very thick skin. I am almost positive that didn't bother him. Or if it did, it was, you know, for half a second. So I don't think there's any victim here. And also the way...
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Chapter 6: How does Big Pharma influence news media?
It turns out nothing like that's happening. And once you find out that they don't test vaccines the way they would test anything you'd expect to be tested, once you learn that, like your brain can't ever get back. Your brain can never recover from that. You'll never trust anything in science again. Once you realize that you thought they'd been testing them for years. Nope.
And they've never tested them altogether. I mean, just think about that. They've got like, what is it, 70 vaccinations or something? But they never tested them like, okay, let's give 70 of them to this baby and then we'll have another baby or a bunch of babies that are getting nothing. So one of them will get 70 and the other get nothing and we'll check all the babies over time.
Now that would tell you something, but we've never done that. And there are reasons we don't do it, right? There are reasons why it is the way it is, so it's not completely irrational. There are reasons. But I didn't know. I didn't know that they had reasons to not test it. What? It's a total mind-breaker. So I think what's going to happen is RFK Jr. is going to slowly...
train even MSNBC that the issue is that the way we do it and what we tell citizens we have done and your informed consent, those are the topics. The topic is not, did this vaccine work? That's not exactly the topic. Sometimes it is, but it's more about are we doing right by the people that we're serving in a variety of ways.
Meanwhile, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is going on TV, of course, MSNBC, I think. And she says, and I don't even believe, it's just amazing that there's a human being who can do this. She says, oh, yes, there's no question. She's talking about Tulsi Gabbard. I consider her someone who is likely a Russian asset and who would be, as the DNI, responsible for managing our entire intelligence community.
hold all of our most significant intelligence information and secrets, and essentially would be a direct line to our enemies. Can you imagine going on television and saying there's no question that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset? No question?
Not even, you know, maybe we should worry about it or maybe there's an indication or, you know, we've seen a little too much closeness and I'm uncomfortable with it. No, just a flat out statement and there's no question about it. The Democrats are terrible people. The politicians, not the voters. The voters are mostly just confused, I think, and been lied to like crazy.
But Debbie Wasserman Schultz, that is such bad behavior. And that's really, really bad behavior. This is a human being. Tulsi Gabbard is a patriot and an American citizen. and an adult human being. She does not deserve this because there's no evidence of this. And I think it's stupid, really. But wow, wow. And she can just go on with her life, Wasserman Schultz again, after dropping that bomb.
Because once you've said that, it never goes away, right? Unbelievable, wow. So what a terrible person. So the Daniel Penny trial has more what I think would be eventually good news for Daniel Penny. I didn't realize that there was one of the witnesses was a Marine. So there was a Marine.
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